The computer world is very dominated by English, and even so with latin alphabet. This idea about making a computer language in Arabic is fascinating. It not only shows how difficult is to set up an environment without problems out of “the ASCII world” (the magnitude is not comparable, but trying to code in languages like French or Spanish has a lot of friction), but it also shows up how alien (yet beautiful) a different alphabet looks. I wonder how code and programming will be if the dominant language would’ve been something like Chinese or Arabic.

I don’t really like the idea of “rivalry” against Vim and Emacs. I prefer to consider them two valid options. But this article goes into explaining their different appeals and why they have been around since an extremely long time ago in computer-years.